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OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports international customs standards in Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 13 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management, Education
BISHKEK, 13 September 2010- A four-week training course for 38 newly recruited customs officers in Kyrgyzstan, organized by the State Customs Service of Kyrgyzstan and the OSCE Centre's Customs Training Development Project, started in Bishkek today...

OSCE Office in Minsk boosts co-operation with Belarus on border management

Publishing date: 14 July 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Border management
MINSK, 14 July 2010- Ambassador Benedikt Haller, the Head of the OSCE Office, and Major-General Andrej Gorulko, the First Deputy Chairman of the State Border Committee of Belarus, signed a memorandum on a new border security and management initiative...

OSCE border college holds seminar on land mines and border security

Publishing date: 13 July 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
DUSHANBE, 13 July 2010- A four-day seminar on land mines and border security challenges started at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe today...

OSCE Centre in Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan help Afghanistan fight smuggling

Publishing date: 9 July 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management
BISHKEK, 9 July 2010- A six-week course during which customs officers from Afghanistan will improve their skills to fight smuggling, organized jointly by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the Kyrgyzstan's State Customs Service, started today...

Fight against illicit drugs is a way to combat terrorism and organized crime, say participants in OSCE meeting

Publishing date: 8 July 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Economic activities, Border management, Countering terrorism, Policing, Rule of law
VIENNA, 8 July 2010- Combating illegal drugs and drug trafficking is an essential element of the fight against terrorism and organized crime, said Serik Baymaganbetov, the Interior Minister of Kazakhstan, to the participants of an OSCE...

Afghan and Tajik officials take part in OSCE course on detecting forged travel documents

Publishing date: 7 July 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
DUSHANBE, 7 July 2010- A workshop on detecting forged travel documents and traveller profiling for high-ranking officers and government officials from Afghanistan and Tajikistan started this week at the OSCE Border Management Staff College...

OSCE organizes customs training in Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 25 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Border management
DASHOGUZ, Turkmenistan, 25 June 2010- An OSCE-organized one-week training course for customs officers on examination and detection techniques and protection of evidence, concluded in Dashoguz, northern Turkmenistan today.